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Smith v. James

Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County · decided 1836-04-05

THIS was a rule on the plaintiff to show cause why the fieri facias issued in this case should not be set aside. On the 11th of August 1835, the plaintiff indorsed a promissory note for 217 dollars 22 cents, payable six months after date, for the accommodation of the defendants, by whom it was immediately delivered to a third person, in discharge of a debt contracted by the defendants.

Decided 1836-04-05

Per Curiam.

¶1The bond on its face stipulates for the payment of the very sum for which the execution has been issued, after thirty days from its date. This period was reached long since, and had the plaintiff resorted to this writ without further delay, it is clear that in defect of proof of a special condition violated by his doing so, we could not, interfere. Now no evidence whatever has been offered by the defendants on the hearing of the present rule. On this plain ground the application must be denied.

¶2But giving effect to the defendant’s own allegations, his situation is not more favourable. The plaintiff appears to have indorsed the notes without the slightest reciprocity or benefit of any description, and the precise purpose of the bond was to secure him for ibis gratuitous act, against the responsibility which he thus incurred. In Monell v. Smith and Jenkins, 5 Cowen 441, it was held, that, “ where one becomes surety for another for a certain sum or sums of money, and takes a bond and warrant from his principal in the usual form, for a sum or sums corresponding in amount, or a bond *164and warrant conditioned ¡o pay the specific sum or sums to the creditor, and there is a partial or total default of payment by his principal, even though the whole money be not due, he may issue execution for the whole; and this whether he has made payment or not”

¶3Rule discharged.

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